[Brian Lawson]

Great Show for gear-heads, both pro's and hobbyist, and "Oh-my-god's!!" and "Ain't-that-amazing's". The 20th Annual North American Model Engineering Show (N.A.M.E.S. or just NAMES) April 18 & 19, 2009 at the SeaGate Convention Center, Toledo, Ohio. Hundreds of models in a range of sizes and classes, in steam and IC plus others, plus Seminars and draws (including Alibre). Lots of CNC (mostly DIY). From kits to completed, parts and pieces, tools and machinery 4 sale too. Great day or two for all ages and ladies too. Have a peek at <www.modelengineeringsoc.com>

[cadmonkey]

For anyone running a machine on EMC2 -

As some of you already know I preach the virtues of EMC2 (mostly in the benchtop forum but I'm spreading out to get a variety of responses hopefully)

At the NAMES show in Toledo April 18-19 there will be a booth and a couple of EMC related exhibitors/vendors. As a backdrop for the EMC2 booth I'm donating some large photo plots of machines running on EMC2. I know Mach is the predominant choice in this room, but anyone running EMC2 please feel free to send me a hi-res shot or two of your machine(s) along with the following information:

• Your name & location (so you can be properly credited)
• The type of machine (eg: Bridgeport conversion, Self Designed Router, etc)
• System specs (steppers, servos, travels, etc. - whatever you want)
• Commercial/Production or Hobby machine
• Basically enough information that whoever is standing at the booth won't be inundated with questions - if you have a webpage that'd be a great addition to the caption.

A pic of a part or two (as long as you don't give up any of your/others intellectual properties) made on it might be beneficial.

Email them to me offlist at Greg {dot} Michalski ;at; distinctperspectives "dot" com (remove the obvious spam trawler preventions). If you have something large (ie a REALLY Hi-Res pic), email me there too to coordinate a file transfer. Let me know you're from the Zone and which forum (I'm cross posting so the guys who stick to one forum have a chance too)

Thanks for reading and your help.

For anyone who doesn't know about NAMES - http://www.modelengineeringsoc.com/ will give you an idea.

Greg

[WayneHill]

A little birdie tells me there are some new products for CNC that will be on display for the first time at NAMES.